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Modoc War 1872-1873
MODOC WAR MODOC WAR (1872–1873). One of the costliest of the nineteenth-century Indian Wars, the Modoc War officially began on 29 November 1872 because of a misunderstanding between the Modoc Indians and the United States. Settlers, who began moving through Modoc territory as early as... Read more |
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Saint Hubert
Hubert, St (d. 727), bishop of Maastricht and Liège; he is said to have converted to Christianity when, hunting on a Good Friday, he found himself confronted by a stag with a crucifix in its antlers (a similar story is told of St Eustace). His supposed hunting-horn is in the Wallace... Read more |
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Weimar Republic
Weimar Republic the German government in the post-World War I period, so called because the Reichstag (national assembly) met in the town of Weimar. The republic was proclaimed on November 9, 1918, and its constitution was adopted on July 31, 1919. The Weimar Republic ended with the ascension of... Read more |
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Avvakum
AVVAKUM PETROVICH (1620–1682), one of the founders of what came to be called Old Belief. Avvakum was a leading figure in the opposition to Patriarch Nikon and the program of church reform he directed. Nikon's removal from his post did not placate Avvakum. He continued to agitate against the... Read more |
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Ten Days That Shook the World
Ten Days That Shook the World, history by John Reed, published in 1919. A dramatization by Robert E. Lee was produced in 1973.A reportorial, firsthand, and sympathetic account of the November Revolution in Russia (1917), when, as the author puts it, “the Bolsheviki, at the head of the... Read more |
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Meskhetian Turks
Meskhetians ETHNONYMS: Meskhetian Turks, Turks; Russian: Meskhetinskie Turki Orientation Identification. The traditional homeland of the Meskhetians is in south-southwestern Georgia, to the south of the Meskhetian mountain ridge. This is a highland region, with a temperate-cold climate... Read more |
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Proclamations
PROCLAMATIONS PROCLAMATIONS. American government proclamations antedate independence. For example, on 16 March 1776, the Second Continental Congress, at the time of "impending calamity and distress when the Liberties of America are imminently endangered," issued a Proclamation "publicly to... Read more |
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Formosa
Formosa. So-called by the Portuguese who visited it in 1590 (Port. formosa, beautiful), this island off the China coast, with a five-million population, had been ceded to Japan by China in 1895. At the start of the China incident the Japanese launched attacks against the Chinese mainland from it,... Read more |
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Friedrich Hoffmann
Hoffmann, Friedrich (b. Halle, Germany, 19 February 1660; d. Halle, 12 November 1742) medicine, chemistry. Hoffmann was a leading medical systmatist of the first half of the eighteenth century. Although not a notably original thinker, he became a highly influential teacher and practicing... Read more |
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Asaph Hall
Hall, Asaph (b. Goshen, Connecticut, 15 October 1829; d. Goshen, 22 November 1907) astronomy. Hall belonged to an old and once prosperous New England family. His father, also called Asaph Hall, a manufacturer of wooden clocks, died in 1842 on a clock-selling trip in Georgia, leaving the family in... Read more |
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TEN: Steffi Graf calls it quits for good in November
...14-1999 TEN: Steffi Graf calls it quits for good in November By John Bagratuni...unfair," said Steffi Graf just a fortnight...her last show November 15-21. ... |